David Kesmodel is an assistant news editor at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in Chicago. David currently edits agriculture coverage and manages a team of five reporters. Previously, he covered beats such as aerospace, alcohol and tobacco as a WSJ staff reporter. In the mid-2000s, David covered technology for WSJ.com, where he came up with the idea of writing a book on the Internet domain-name market. He´s also written for newspapers such as Denver’s Rocky Mountain News and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughters.
